Penny Day
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Lot 33
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson A.R.A(British, 1889-1946)Happier Days, Walton Bridge 35.7 x 25.5 cm. (14 x 10 in.)
14 November 2018, 15:00 GMT
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Ingram Reid
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Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson A.R.A (British, 1889-1946)
Happier Days, Walton Bridge
signed 'C.R.W. Nevinson' (lower right)
watercolour, pencil and gouache
35.7 x 25.5 cm. (14 x 10 in.)
signed 'C.R.W. Nevinson' (lower right)
watercolour, pencil and gouache
35.7 x 25.5 cm. (14 x 10 in.)
Footnotes
Provenance
With The Leicester Galleries, London, May 1947, where acquired by the family of the previous owner
Exhibited
London, The Leicester Galleries, Watercolours from Nature, March 1932, cat.no.57, as Sunday afternoon at Walton
London, New English Art Club, Winter, 1932, cat.no.254, as Sunday, Walton Bridge
London, The Leicester Galleries, Memorial Exhibition of Pictures by C.R.W. Nevinson A.R.A., May-June 1947, cat.no.61
This watercolour exhibited at Nevinson's memorial exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in 1947 as Happier Days, Walton Bridge shows every sign of being painted in the early 1930s. It would appear to be Sunday afternoon at Walton (also referred to as Walton-on-Thames), which was shown at The Leicester Galleries in 1932, at a time when Nevinson was living in nearby Shepperton. The third Walton Bridge is depicted, before it was bomb damaged in 1940. Many of Nevinson's pictures of this period feature landscapes in Surrey, and along the Thames. The figures punting on the left-hand side of the picture echo such paintings of his from the early 1920s as Hampton Court and Summer Evening, Thames Ditton.
We are grateful to Chris Martin for compiling this catalogue entry.
